Prohibition Vote Split in Texas House on Statewide Issue
The Texas House backed a statewide prohibition submission 92 to 47 but needs 95 for final passage. The Bagby bone-dry amendment failed 46 to 93 amid speeches by Bagby Mendell against Cope Spencer. Three lawmakers were absent. outcome hinges on whether absentees vote yes.
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Austin
Tex
House
Nichols
Texas
Bagby
Mendell
Cope and
Spencer
Anti-Saloon League of Texas
Kansas
Anti- Saloon League
Anti-saloon League
Hobson
Supreme Court
Cope
Jess Baker
Cunningham
Equal Suffrage Association
Congress Avenue
Delayed Homecoming of Missouri Infantry Due to Measles
Measles outbreak in the Fourth Missouri Infantry at Laredo postpones their homegoing indefinitely. Eight companies affected. other units scheduled to depart from Camp Wilson Llano Grande and Brownsville area between February 1 and 5, including the Third Illinois Infantry, First Arkansas Infantry, and First Oklahoma Infantry.
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Fourth
Missouri Infantry
Laredo
Third
Illinois Infantry
Camp Wilson
Second
Indiana Infantry
Llano Grande
Fifth
Nebraska Infantry
Signal Corps
First
Arkansas Infantry
Deming
Oklahoma Infantry
San Benito
Oklahoma
Brownsville
Cavalry
Engineers
Iowa
Third Infantry
Trade Council Opens Fourth Foreign Trade Convention
The National Foreign Trade Council began its fourth annual convention in Pittsburg with delegates from across the nation. James Farrell of United States Steel presided as Robert F. Lanney welcomed guests. A new president and a general convention committee were elected. Topics include postwar world trade, the merchant marine, and joint selling agency plans. A report on postwar trade conditions was presented followed by several addresses.
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Pittsburg
National Foreign Trade Council
James Farrell
United States Steel Corporation
Robert F. Lanney
America
Newnam Wins Salary Suit Against City of San Antonio
Frank Newnam former police chief won his suit for the unserved portion of his term. He was awarded 1555 dollars plus six percent interest totaling about 1800 dollars. The Forty fifth District Court heard the case with Judge Tayloe presiding. The city may appeal.
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Frank Newnam
City of
San Antonio
A. H. Jones
Forty-fifth District
8. G. Tayloe
Russia builds U boats to counter German submarines
A letter to Mayor Moss from B. B. McAlpine says Russia is constructing a large fleet of submarines at Reval to combat German U boats. Several craft are to be ready in the spring and are designed for long voyages.
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Newport News
Russia
Moss
B. B. McAlpine
Reval
McAlpine
Weather Forecast for San Antonio Area
The forecast calls for tonight to be fair and slightly warmer with Friday remaining fair. Little or no change in conditions expected across San Antonio and surrounding areas.
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San Antonio
Weather Forecast Across Cities From The Light
Forecasts from The Light list conditions for St Louis Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Kansas City New York and Washington. Reports include temperatures winds and chances of snow with highs and lows noted for Friday and the coming period.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
ST. Paul
Kansas City
New York
Washington
Submarine Sighted Off Newport Lying Between Point Judith
An unidentified submarine, heavily laden, is reported off Newport between Point Judith and Beaver Tail. It arrived shortly after 2 PM with Captain Wiles later noting the vessel submerged at 3 PM near the Beaver Tail coastguard station.
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Newport, R. I
Point Judith
Beaver Trail
Wiles
Beaver Tail
Stringent Railroad Bill Proposed in Texas Legislature
Senators Bailey Lattimore and Hudspeth introduced a bill allowing Texas to place noncompliant railroads under receivership if they disobey state or Texas Railroad Commission orders about intrastate commerce. The measure targets interstate tariff disputes tied to the Shreveport rate case and aims to avoid federal-state jurisdiction conflicts.
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Austin
Tex
Bailey, Lattimore
Hudspeth
Senate
Texas
Texas Railroad Commission
Congress
Railroads of
Interstate Commerce Commission
Shreveport
Attorney General's Department
France Endures Severe Cold Amid Coal Shortage
Paris reports the severest cold in years with temperatures at seventeen Fahrenheit. Frost hits Marseille and Bordeaux as deaths rise from cold and a fuel shortage worsens Parisians' hardships. Edouard Herriot orders sale of reserve fuel and dispatches military coal wagons to aid small dealers. Wolves and bears are reported in eastern and Loire valley areas.
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Paris
France
Marseilles
Bordeaux
Edouard Herriot
Department
Cote D'Or
Loire Valley
Plumbers Help Recover Stolen Silverware in North Santa Rosa
Plumbers fixing a North Santa Rosa avenue house found over 500 dollars worth of silverware stolen January 20 from J. P. Barclay of 401 Augusta street. Detectives Green and Proudfoot arrested a masked man who had worked nearby after the silverware was spotted in a corner of a building where the plumbing crew worked. The recovered items included tea sets bowls mugs trays and cutlery.
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Santa Rosa Avenue
J. P. Barclay
Augusta Street
Green
Proudfoot
Barclay
Engines Kill Deer On Tracks In San Francisco
Southern Pacific engineers were ordered to extinguish locomotive headlights at night to protect deer migrating along railroad tracks. The state fish and game commission requested the move after deer were repeatedly struck, with more than a dozen killed in the last month. An instant blackout allows deer to jump clear to safety.
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San Francisco
Cal
Southern Pacific Company
State Fish and Game Commission
Parliament Reopened With Naval Military Parade
London reports the king and queen will reopen Parliament on February 7 without the customary state ceremony. A procession featuring naval and military figures will replace the traditional pageantry.
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London
Spanell Testifies In Own Defense In Alpine Killing Case
Harry J. Spanell testified he fired no shot that killed his wife and claimed Lieutenant Colonel M C Butler fired the fatal shot. He described Butler's improper attentions to Mrs Spanell and a tense sequence after a dance trip to Marfa. Jurors teared as Spanell spoke and related his jealousy and love for his wife.
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San Angelo
Tex
Harry J. Spanell
Alpine
M. C. Butler
Butler
Spanell
Marfa
Spanells
Colonel Holland
Cardinal Gibbons Urges Wilson to Veto Immigration Bill
Baltimore January 25 Cardinal Gibbons releases a statement urging President Wilson to veto the immigration bill. He warns against confusing illiteracy with ignorance, arguing that intelligence does not prove virtue and praising the industrious illiterate as an asset to the nation.
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Baltimore
Cardinal Gibbons
Wilson
Congress
United States
Brokers Reaching Records On Stock Exchange Deals
New York Jan 25 Stock exchange brokers asked by the House rules committee to produce customer transaction records are responding promptly Sherman L Whipple counsel for the committee said he expects the inquiry to wrap up in New York next week He praised the exchange officials and brokers for cooperation and denied reports of friction with Representative Chiperfield Chairman Henry remained in New York.
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New York
Whipple
Representative Chiperfield
Chiperfield
Noble
The
Stock Exchange
Henry
Third Mississippi warship launched in naval ceremony
Fifteen thousand people including Secretary Daniels witnessed the launching of the battleship Mississippi. Miss Camille McBeath of Meridian christened the vessel. Secretary Daniels praised past Mississippis as inspirations while noting the new ship will be a larger, more powerful addition to the fleet with a 21 knot speed, 32 000 ton displacement, turbine engines, and a heavy main battery of twelve 14 inch rifles.
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Newport News
Daniels
Mississippi
Camille McBeath
Meridian
Miss
Navy
Dan‘tels
Commodore Perry
Pacific
Japan
Matthew Galbraith Perry
George Dewey
Farragut
New Orleans
Fort Hudson
Smith
Dewey
Greece
Pennsylvania
Arizona
Curtis
Labor Conference Rejects Immediate Peace Proposals
Manchester England January 25 The labor conference voted more than three to one against an immediate peace proposal. The labor party unanimously adopted a resolution demanding immediate conscription of accumulated wealth to ease wartime burdens.
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Manchester
England
Labor Conference
Labor Party
Favor Guarantee For State Banks
Austin January 25 The Senate Committee on Insurance and Banking reported favorably the Gibson Senate bill proposing to guarantee time deposits in state banks in Texas.
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Austin
Tex
Senate Committee On Insurance and Banking Today
Gibson
Bonar Law denounces Wilsons peace plan in Bristol speech
Andrew Bonar Law urges war loan meeting that the war ends with peace not terms of surrender. He accuses Germany of naked aggression and says Wilsons league of peace is not utopian but must avoid leaving victorious military leaders in power. He warns neutral nations cannot block barbarism and stresses immediate life or death stakes.
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Bristol
London
Andrew Bonar Law
Exchequer
British War Council
Wilson
United States Senate
America
Cromwell
Governor Ferguson Opposes Wilson Peace Plan
Governor Ferguson, in a telegram to a New York paper, voices opposition to President Wilson's peace plan. He argues the government should not enter a league to enforce peace and that the United States should stay out of any move that could force war. He remains unalterably opposed to joining the proposed peace movement.
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Washington, D. C
New York
Ferguson
Wilson
Europe
Wired
Riga Sector Scene of Hard Fighting
The heaviest fighting in the war is in the Riga sector on the Russian front. German forces drove back Russian troops a mile and a half near the Tiul marsh and won positions on a six mile front taking over 1700 prisoners and 13 machine guns. Russians countered near Kalnze, southeast of the river Aa, but German counter moves forced a retreat. Elsewhere the action is mainly artillery patrol and air combat.
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Associated Press
Riga
Great Tiul
Berlin
Teutonic Army
Petrograd
Kalnzem
Germans Report a Victory on Russo-Galician Front
Berlin reports German forces captured Russian positions on a six mile front at the northern end of the Russo Galician line. Russians allegedly resisted with reserves but the Germans seized more than 1700 prisoners and thirteen machine guns.
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Berlin
Sayville
War Office
Desperate fighting in Riga region as German attacks repulsed
Petrograd reports continued heavy fighting on the Riga front. German assaults in the Tirul marsh area were driven back in a counter attack near the eastern outskirts, according to the war office, via London.
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Riga
Petrograd
London
British Admiralty
War Office
Tirul
New Anti Strike Plan Faces Senate Fight
Railroad labor leaders delivered a written proposal to President Wilson advocating a mixed board investigation as a substitute for a law to prevent strikes. They contend it would settle disputes while the Wilson plan to bar strikes and lockouts pending inquiry faces a Senate floor battle after the committee again rejected it by ten to five.
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Washington, D. C
Railroad Brotherhood
Wilson
Senate
Mittee
License House Cats in Fond du Lac Hope Dog Law
Fond du Lac Wisconsin residents debated licensing house cats after a public meeting where men criticized midnight cat activities and women defended felines as lovable. The idea imagines licensing cats similarly to dogs if the legislature enacts a law.
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Fond DU Lac
Wis
Wisconsin
Woman Dead and Actor Held in Los Angeles Case
In Los Angeles police report, Mrs Nell Harvey of Exeter California was found dead in a bed at the Leonide Hotel. Actor Harlan J Winter was taken into custody at a rooming house where he ran partly dressed. Winter says the woman died of natural causes and that they were to be married. Hotel proprietor recalls scuffling noise last night.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Nell Harvey
Exeter
Leonide
Harlan J. Winter
Winter
Assassination attempt on Yukio Ozaki at mass meeting
In Tokio two assailants armed with swords tried to stab Yukio Ozaki as he urged Premier Terauchi's resignation during a mass meeting. The attackers were overpowered, two more assailants were beaten by the crowd, and a heavy police guard protected today’s Diet session. Ozaki, former mayor of Tokio, has a noted international profile.
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Tokio
Yukio Ozaki
Justice
Constitutional Party
M. Ozaki
Terauchi
Japanese Emperor Dissolves House of Representatives
Tokyo reports the emperor dissolved the House of Representatives after Premier Terauchi anticipated an adverse confidence vote. The crisis followed his April last year appointment and criticism from political leaders who say he lacks broad public support. Terauchi plans to align with the Seiyu Kai party and pursues a China policy backing.
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Tokio
Japan
House of Representatives
Terauchi
Yoshihito
Seiyu-Kai
Constitutional) Party
New China
Motono
Count Terauchi
Last
Associated Press
Pomeroy Granted Easing of Solitary After 41 Years
Jesse Pomeroy, jailed since 15 for murder and kept in solitary at Charlestown, is granted equal privileges with other prisoners. He will see passersby, exercise with others, attend church, and work in the shops as his health allows. Governor McCall approved the commutation. He now studies languages and law while remaining a model prisoner.
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Boston
Mass
Jesse Pomeroy
Charlestown
State Executive Council
Pomeroy
McCall
Dorchester
Iece
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Labor Against Peace
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Angeles
Taft
Obama
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